I’m finishing up my annotated bibliography for my paper over Edgar Allan Poe, and I came across articles that discussed how people are coming closer to solving the mystery of his death. At first, this excited me. But then I realized I didn’t want to know, especially after reading that it could have been a brain tumor. Wouldn’t it be better to just leave it all alone and never truly know? Mysteries are better than the truth sometimes. Much more gripping. That’s why people hold onto such things. They love the mystery of it. Maybe a part of me prefers to believe that he died under a much more strange, inexplainable circumstance. I believe that Edgar Allan Poe would’ve been very pleased with how mysterious his life and death are today, and would have liked the idea of no one really knowing how he went out of this world. That’s a personal opinion, as is this, but I think we humans should just leave mysteries as mysteries. That’s some of the little magic we have in this world.
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